Nikki Glaser has significantly added to her résumé over the last year, launching a new daily podcast on Will Ferrell’s Big Money Players network on iHeartRadio in March, hosting the first-ever MTV Movie & TV Awards in May and hosting and executive-producing buzzy new HBO Max reality show FBoy Island. She also started a new comedy tour to kick off the summer, and hits The Mirage on Sept. 17 as part of the Aces of Comedy series.

How does it feel to be back in Las Vegas again?

I love performing in Vegas because even though a lot of locals come to shows, it’s such a great mixture of people from all over. You don’t have to cater the set to a certain type of people, you can just be yourself. And it’s so cool to be a Vegas act right now because I worked in the clubs forever where I was just one of the comedians on the bill, thankful to get a couple hundred bucks for the weekend and stay at the hotel and eat at the casino cafeteria. This time they might fulfill my entire rider and have a vegan smorgasbord for me before I go onstage. But I love The Mirage, and it’s really a mile marker in my career to be performing there.

Is the material for this show pretty structured, or will it be more spontaneous?

This whole tour I’ve been building the act and figuring out what it is I want to say, and it’s all leading to a special taping I’m doing in November. I’m someone who really develops the material onstage, and this show is perfect timing because there is the right amount of flying by the seat of my pants, but I know where the the jokes are. It’s not too regimented, but I know what I want to say and I know the jokes I do have are great, so any that come up in the moment—which is inevitable in Vegas because everyone is processing their surroundings and reacting to how different everything is—will be cool because I’m at a point where I can trust myself to play with the audience and go off on tangents.

Doing a daily podcast seems like such a grind. What’s your secret to keeping things fresh and funny?

I’ve always loved listening to the radio and always idolized people like Howard Stern and Adam Carolla, people you feel super connected to because you listen to their voice every day, and I knew that was a medium I wanted to sink my teeth into and hone a talent for. I just know as a consumer of the kind of (content) I wanted to make, I wanted to do a daily thing and I also want to get those 10,000 hours. Once I clock those, I’ll be an expert and undeniably good. I don’t get nervous before I go onstage or do a podcast anymore. My job rarely stresses me out and I’ve worked very hard to get to that point where it feels like second nature.

Hosting a reality show was something new and different for you. Why do you think FBoy Island has been such a success?

In terms of television, I’ve never been so trusted to be me and not have someone tell me what to do. There were no notes. It was, “We know what you are and we like it.” So I felt really comfortable developing a new style of hosting a reality TV show in which I make fun of the genre and the tropes and how ridiculous it all is while also being very sincerely invested in the relationships that develop. I love watching people fall in love and I believe that it’s real and it was confirmed for me on the show. And I have a deep respect for the people willing to go on a show like that. There’s an inherent bravery in putting yourself out there that much.

The Mirage, 10 p.m. Sept. 17, starting at $29.99 plus tax and fee, 16+, 702.792.7777

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